Europa Europa

Europa Europa
French theatrical release poster
Directed byAgnieszka Holland
Screenplay byAgnieszka Holland
Based onI Was Hitler Youth Salomon
by Solomon Perel
Produced byArtur Brauner
Margaret Ménégoz
Starring
CinematographyJacek Petrycki
Edited by
  • Isabelle Lorente
  • Ewa Smal
Music byZbigniew Preisner
Distributed byOrion Pictures (US)
Release dates
  • 14 November 1990 (1990-11-14) (France)[1]
  • 28 June 1991 (1991-06-28) (US)
Running time
112 minutes
Countries
LanguagesGerman
Russian
Polish
Hebrew
Yiddish
Box office$5,575,738 (domestic)[4]

Europa Europa (German: Hitlerjunge Salomon, lit., "Hitler Youth Salomon") is a 1990 historical war drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland, and starring Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Hanns Zischler, and André Wilms. It is based on the 1989 autobiography of Solomon Perel, a German-Jewish boy who escaped the Holocaust by masquerading as a Nazi and joining the Hitler Youth. Perel himself appears briefly as "himself" in the film's finale. The film's title refers to World War II's division of continental Europe, resulting in a constant national shift of allegiances, identities, and front lines.

The film is an international co-production between the German company CCC Film and companies in France and Poland. Europa Europa won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1992.

  1. ^ a b "Hitlerjunge Salomon". filmportal.de (in German). Retrieved April 25, 2013.
  2. ^ "Europa Europa". British Film Institute. London: BFI Film & Television Database. Archived from the original on February 7, 2009. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
  3. ^ "Europa Europa". Bifi.fr (in French). Retrieved April 25, 2013.
  4. ^ Europa Europa at Box Office Mojo